Wikipedia Won't Be Using AI to Replace Humans, Thank Goodness
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Summary
Wikimedia Foundation has announced that it will be launching new AI tools to help assist volunteers and editors on the Wikipedia platform.
Rather than replacing humans, the AI tools will focus on automating tedious tasks and aiding new volunteers through guided mentorship and improving discoverability of information.
This will free up editors to spend more time creating, editing, and updating entries on the platform.
The new AI tools are also focused on retaining the values of the Wikipedia platform and adhering to its principles, privacy and human rights policies, and taking a human- centred approach.
While AI tools like ChatGPT have been useful for research and analysis of large datasets, when it comes to facts, information and history, human oversight is still crucial due to the tendency of AI to hallucinate or fabricate facts due to errors in datasets.
